On 14.07.2010 09:11:28 Adam Kovacs wrote: > Dear Jeremias, Georg, Chris, Craig, > > thanks a lot for your answers!!! > > I already thought about the "simple text marker" idea. > I really would prefer a marker on element or attribute level because I have > an already implemented XMLFilter which would handle my placeholders. > A text parsing would be less performant in my opinion...
I don't think it will be noticably slower than looking for an attribute or an element. > @Jeremias: when you say that a new extension would be difficult, do you mean > impossible? > If its possible could you give me some hints how to do this... Difficult meaning that there are no real extension points in the current code for this and that I don't have time right now to think about it and to explain how to create such an extension. > I dont want to lose the great performance of the IF just because some text > parsing... > > Thanks in advance! > > Adam > > > On 13.07.2010, at 14:10, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > Adam, > > > > the IF was designed to be fast and is therefore not very verbose. If you > > need to refer to an ID, you have to use the Area Tree XML (AT) like > > Georg said. > > > > On page, page-sequence and image, the IFSerializer writes out any > > foreign attributes (non-fo namespace) that exist in the XSL-FO. But that > > doesn't work on blocks and such because the semantics of XSL-FO don't > > exist in IF anymore. > > > > Implementing a FOP extension on this level is going to be rather difficult. > > > > As another work-around, you could do something like this: > > > > <fo:block space-after="-1.2em">HERE!</fo:block> > > > > You can then look for and extract the <text> element with "HERE!". The > > -1.2em compensates for the size of the block. > > > > On 13.07.2010 11:19:56 Adam Kovacs wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I would need an XML element from any namespace which is not interpreted by > >> FOP and goes into the Intermediate Format output as it is. > >> I want to use this element as placeholder in the FOP_IF, and in a second > >> step I can modify the FOP Intermediate File for my needs. > >> > >> Is there an element I could use? > >> If not how can I make a new FOP Extension which does this? > >> > >> Any other suggestion how to do this are very welcome!!! > >> > >> Thanks in advance! > >> > >> Greetings, > >> > >> Adam > >> > >> Using FOP Trunk > >> > > > > > > > > > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > > Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
